Elgin Middle School

Set in Marion, Ohio, Elgin Middle School is an intimate junior high, run under Elgin Local. It works with 257 students across grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 47% leaner than the state mean of about 482.

Across the 3 schools in Elgin Local (1,022 students total), Elgin Middle School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, Elgin Middle School records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (92%). Beyond that, the school lists 5% Hispanic.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.0:1 average. Around 59% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Elgin Middle School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 66.5%; this one comes in at 49.1%, -17.4 points off the demographic line.

Zooming out to the county, Marion County reports that median household income runs about $59,371, 15% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. In all, Marion County runs 27 public schools (combined enrollment of about 12,492 students), of which Elgin Middle School is one.

Elgin High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Elgin Middle School has increased 17%, going from 219 students in 2018 to 257 in 2025.

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